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@uiten gisten VLetters Pctent No. 81,606, dated September 1, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN DRIBBS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

'Be it known that I, CORDIAL CRANE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, vhave invented an Improved Portable Clothes-.Drier; and I do` hereb)r` declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part ot" this specification, is a. description of my invention suicient to enable thoseskilledlin the art to practise it. v

l t the present time, when many persons and families'are confined to but few rooms, and often not having,v access to ynrdroomror^the honse-tops, itis an object to makev much of the household-furniture used, in such a.

l manner that it shall suhserve more than one purpose', and shall conceal one or more utilitarian purposes, after the manner of wardrobe andsofa-beds, t'c. p

The object ofmy invention is to provide a-means for drying articles of clothing from the wash, in such a manner as to conceal them,L `and by a. lne/ans which, when not'empioyed osa clotheedrier, may bc mede to serve t'he purposes of a common' wardrobe, and also of a Stand, or table,.or of a cupboard. A

To. ciiect my purpose, I construct a kind of closet, which is best mounted on casters for convenience of moving from place to'placefsaid closet being providelfwith doors on one or more sides, and having iiiits base .a pipe or opening through which the heated `air entering; 'room fr''m'a furnaceor other means for heating, is

r'n'adeA to pass into ythe closeibiwhich is further provided with 'iacls,'0'vcr which clothes can be'hung W-ithinthc interior ofthe closet. l

This closet is also provided at or near its top with an outlet or outlets, through which the hot air, as it aseends and absorbs the moisture from the damp clothes, may escapo either into theY room or into a passage, which may be connected with the chimney or other Bueleading from the room. i v

I preferjto make/the racks so as to swing outward'irom the closet through its open doors, for convenience in placing o r removing the clothes,

As many rooms receive their `heat from registers opening out'oi'v the walls instead-of the -iloor, .thc closet may have, :it one of its Sides, en opcning,'arranged, es to size and height from the floor, to suit such registers..

i- This a aratus when not )laced over or in connection with a reiristcr ma occu an convenient location in va, room, land being made somewhat ornamental, will appear like a commode, or cupboard, or sewingmachine case, and its top may serve the purposeY of ast-and o1' table, while the racks may be hung with any articles of clothing, such es are kept in wardrobes, or shelves may be placed on the racks, and crockcry or other articles for family use may he loeatedthereon. v

The drawing shows in cross vertical sectiori,fand in elcvation beyond the section, one of my improved driers,

'the door a onone side Being represented as open, while the door b, on the opposite side, is represented as closed, and racks c cv are shown es mounted on nivoteil posts d, capable of swinging outward, as s een on the right hand of the drawing.

The hase or hottomhoard of the closet hasn. skirting around it, coming as nearly to the floor as the free l operation ot the casters will permit, andthrough said base an opening is made, which may he controlled by a register or valve,if desired, through which the' heated air nscends to the interior of the drier, and, passingl amongst the damperticles suspended on the racks, finds-an exit through the openingle, at the top of the drier. The opening in the' side of 4the drier to match the wall-registers is'rcpresented utf;

yI claim, as n. new article et' manufacture, a. clothes-drying closet, constriicted with doors-ond pivoted'raoks, and provided with inlet-'passages to receive heated air'from vregister-pipes, andwith 'outlets-for the escape of heatedair saturated with moisture, al'lsubstantialiy a's and for the'purpose described. v

, CORDIAL CRANE. Witnesses: n

J. B. Cnosnr, G. WARREN BnowN. 

